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...successful. He is crude in the sense that a Michael Curtiz or Roaul Walsh was crude, aiming for direct actions which are emotionally arousing but possess a sort of integrity: they don't score moral points. At one moment, a Teutonic Savanarola is thrown onto a witch's pyre of his own fashion, but there is no audience gratification-this though the priest, aside from the town merchant, is the film's leading villain. The motivations are too involved, and the action itself is one which goes beyond personal conflict; it is treated as such. Like a good old Warner...
...found wisdom. Each adventure turns out to be a con game, with somebody else working the con and Hatterr as the game. Attempting to exorcise the mystical fit of an itinerant bard, he is himself accused of being possessed by a spirit and is nearly burned alive on a pyre. "Damme," he says, "this is Life and contrast...
Potatoes for the Pyre...
...YOUTH FARE really dead then? Or will it, like the legendary Phoenix, rise from its funeral pyre to fly again...
...passing interest in the ROTC issue at Harvard, and in view of your editorial, "Curbing ROTC" which was in the edition of 5 February (". . . yesterday's decision should not be the final episode of the ROTC debate here"), I leap at this chance to supply fuel for the pyre. Specifically, I beseech you to furnish me a medium to express my THANKS...